Increased Population Sole Remedy 



Selected and directed immigration the slogan of the 

 Kiwanians describes tersely and clearly what would seem 

 to be necessary. Selection will ensure the right class of 

 settlers to meet the requirements of the country, and 

 direction will not only lessen the worry and uncertainty of 

 the newly landed immigrant, but will be a reasonable surety 

 that he will be properly allocated. Selection and direc- 

 tion will serve to minimize the danger of unemployment 

 that sometimes results from immigration activity. Growth 

 of population will naturally stimulate industry and create 

 an increased demand for skilled and unskilled workmen. 

 But there will be means at hand to ensure proper adjust- 

 ment and avoid an over-supply of workmen from abroad 

 to the detriment of our own. 



The comparative gross earnings of the railway com- 

 panies in any country may be taken as a rather reliable 

 index of the growth of business activity in the country 

 within a given period. In 1920 the gross revenue of the 

 railways of Canada were about six times as large as they 

 were in 1900, after making due allowance for any difference 

 in tariff rates. During that period our population has 

 increased by about 3,000,000 people. Think of what a 

 difference it would make to our National Railway system, 

 what opportunity it would offer for a reduction of taxation 

 and of rates for the carriage of domestic commodities, if, 

 within a short period, we could add 3,000,000 more. 



Now, Mr. Chairman, 1 have endeavored to give you 

 briefly, and without resorting to too much detail, my views 

 on immigration and settlement. During the forty years 

 that 1 have been associated with the development of 

 Canada, there has never been a time when 1 thought that 

 the emergency required prompter action on the part of the 

 Government than at present. It is to be hoped that in the 

 adoption and prosecution of a bold and vigorous effort to 

 increase our population, the Government will have the 

 confidence and support of every loyal Canadian citizen. 

 It is not a time for hesitation or faint-heartedness. There 

 is a future in Canada's vision that should and must be 

 realized. Let us map out and adopt a policy that will, in 

 the future, make Canada populous, prosperous and con- 

 tented, an example and a blessing not only to the Empire, 

 but to all mankind. 



The Woods of Nova Scotia 



The forests of Nova Scotia constitute one of 

 that province's first natural resources. Econo- 

 mic settlement in the peninsula province has 

 taken place about the coasts, convenient to the 

 pursuit of the first industry which springs from 

 the fertile waters off them. Parallel to the 

 coasts lie undulating fertile valleys where many 

 phases of agriculture have been followed from 

 the earliest days of Canadian history and where 

 countless small farms and orchards exist. The 

 vast interior is one tremendous expanse of 

 forest and lakeland, a magnificent area of wild 

 beauty, a material resource of great worth and 

 the haunt of many species of Canadian fauna. 



The forests of Nova Scotia probably display 

 a greater variety of arboreal growth than any 

 other section of the Dominion. There, growing 

 side by side, one encounters the spruce, pine, 

 hemlock, oak and maple. Nor do the forests 

 stretch in one montonous sweep across the 

 peninsula, but are broken by myriad lakes of 

 varying expanse and entrancing beauty, many 

 of them forming chains of waterways from the 

 interior to the Atlantic. Conditions are the 



best for the multiplication of game and fish, 

 which constitute one of the province's main 

 attractions. 



Countless visitors are attracted to the Nova 

 Scotia woods each year and at all periods of the 

 year. Whilst the majority are fishermen and 

 huntsmen, drawn by the excellence of the sport 

 in lake and wood, there are many nature lovers 

 and students for whom the provincial forests 

 have a peculiar lure. Many such visitors have 

 permanent lodges or cabins there to which they 

 return each year, and not a few volumes on the 

 fauna and plant life of the northern part of the 

 continent have had their origin in the heart of 

 the Nova Scotia woods. 



The Economic Value 



Economically the woods of the provinces 

 have a considerable value, being worth in revenue 

 about $20,000,000 each year, not including about 

 $50,000 which annually accrues from the sale of 

 hunting licenses and which might justifiably be 

 credited to the woods. The estimated forest 

 area of the province is 7,812 square miles, 

 practically all of which is in private ownership. 

 There is a heavy timber cut each year, and about 

 200,000,000 feet of lumber goes annually to the 

 United States. 



The Nova Scotia limits contain about 

 25,000,000 cords of spruce and balsam suitable 

 for pulp and paper manufacture. The annual 

 cut for this purpose is about 300,000 cords, mak- 

 ing it a little more than eighty years before the 

 exhaustion of supply in the absence of methods 

 of conservation and re-aforestation. There are 

 no newsprint mills in the province, but six pulp 

 mills, capitalized at $20,000,000, with a pro- 

 duction of about 25,000 tons of wood pulp 

 annually, which is exported in its entirety to the 

 United States. 



Nova Scotia's contribution to the paper- 

 making industry of the United States is not 

 inconsiderable, and the province, though not 

 actually making paper, gets the benefit of the 

 industrial development due to the local manu- 

 facture of the pulp. 



Demand for New Brunswick Lumber 



In a year which is exhibiting brighter pros- 

 pects for Canadian trade and industry in every 

 section of the Dominion and covering practically 

 every phase of activity, there is further gratifi- 

 cation furnished by the fact that New Brunswick 

 is sharing in this prosperity to the extent of 

 experiencing an extensive demand for the 

 product of her forests. The real significance 

 of this is only appreciated when it is realized 

 that the lumber industry in its various phases 

 constitutes pre-eminently the province's most 

 important activity. Not only is the demand and 

 export of lumber fast approaching a state equal 



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